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According to the EPA, recycling 100 million cell phones would save enough energy to power nearly 200,000 U.S. households with electricity for one year. How close do we come? The EPA says fewer than 20 percent of the 130 million cell phones being retired this year will be recycled.

In 2008, an estimated 130 million wireless phones will be retired from use, yet fewer than 20 percent of those phones will be recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Earth Day approaches, North Dakota residents with no-longer-used wireless phones and accessories can donate them, in any condition, at any participating Verizon Wireless Communications Store in the state.